Media Training Worldwide’s TJ Walker Gives Insights On Public speaking & Media Training

TJ’s Insights

May 9, 2005

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Adjust Your Volume In Your Microphone, Not Your Voice Box

Lots of people are comfortable speakers when they are in front of an audience of 20-30 people. Most moderately experienced speakers feel relatively relaxed in situations like this. The speaker seems comfortable to the audience, because he or she is speaking in a normal, conversational tone of voice. Nothing sounds strained, phony or contrived.

But when this very same speaker is put in front of a larger audience of, say 100-300 people, everything changes. There are now so many people in the room that the speaker can not talk in a normal tone of voice and be heard. Fortunately, a microphone has been provided. This means the speaker CAN talk in a normal tone of voice and be heard by everyone because the speakers are on and provide ample volume. Intellectually, the presenter knows this. He knows he doesn’t really have to speak louder than usual to be heard (and yet he still does).

Instead of the presenter saying, “Our company helped increase sales 15%.” It sounds like this “OUR COMPANY HELPED INCREASE SALES 15%”

In other words, you annoy the heck out of everyone in your audience because you are speaking to loudly and it sounds like shouting.

So why do presenters yell when there is no need to do so? It is their attempt to be polite to make sure everyone in the audience can hear them and because it intuitively makes sense to project one’s voice when some people are far away (that’s what you have to do if you are at a football game and you are yelling at your buddy 20 rows down.)

But don’t do it. It might not seem “natural” to speak in a “normal” tone of voice to a giant room full of people, but that is the only way to seem normal to your audience.

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TJ Walker
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